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The Sims 4: City Livingintroduced a number of exciting, metropolitan elements to a game largely about life in intimate small towns. And along with the endlessness of the city and the glow of the lights came a brand new career – the Critic career, with branches for both artandfood.
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With the branches splitting early towards their specialties, each with several skills to build, it can be tough to decide which path is right for your Sim. In the guide below, we’re breaking down the hours, pay, promotional tasks, and more for the Critic career in The Sims 4.
Critic Career Overview
Choose Between Arts Or Food To Critique
Life in the metropolos of San Myshuno can overwhelm a fresh faced Sim with stars in their eyes, so they’ll need someone todictate taste and culture in the city. And who better to do that than you?
In The Sims 4 Critic career, you’ll have your choice between two major staples of big-city living:
It’s best to decide which path you’d like sooner than later, as this career splitsearly, making you choose a path atLevel Four.
As it is, the base game Writer career does pay more than the Critic career will in either branch, given yourrelatively short working hoursand almost limitless ability towork from home.
They do becomemore profitable at higher levels, though, so if online snark is your Sim’s passion, keep at it!
Helpful Traits And Moods For The Critic Career
As with any career based in anything artistic in The Sims 4, theCreativetrait is inarguably one of the most helpful for either of the Critic career paths. It allows your Sim to becomeInspiredmore often than normal Sims, which definitely helps in a writing job!
From there, though, the best traits will bedifferent between both career branches. For example, Food Critics may benefit from beingFoodies, while Arts Critics would glean more from traits likeMusic LoversorArt Lovers.
Promotional Requirements and Daily Tasks
6 AM - 11 AM
$21/hour ($105/day)
Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday
10 AM - 5 PM
$29/hour ($203/day)
Reach Level 2 in the Writing skill
$34/hour ($238/day)
Reach Level 3 in the Writing skill
Friday-Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
12 PM - 5 PM
$47/hour ($235/day)
Reach Level 2 in the Painting skill
Reach Level 2 in either Comedy or an instrumental skill
4 PM - 9 PM
$66/hour ($330/day)
Reach Level 4 in the Writing skill
Reach Level 3 in either Comedy or an instrumental skill
$93/hour ($465/day)
Reach Level 5 in the Writing skill
Reach Level 3 in the Painting skill
$130/hour ($650/day)
Reach Level 4 in the Painting skill
Reach Level 4 in either Comedy or an instrumental skill
$182/hour ($910/day)
Reach Level 7 in the Writing skill
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
$273/hour ($1,365/day)
Reach Level 8 in the Writing skill
Reach Level 6 in either Comedy or an instrumental skill
Grand Steward of the Arts (10)
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
$545/hour ($2,270/day)
10 AM - 4 PM
$49/hour ($294/day)
Review Food or DrinkorWrite a Column
Reach Level 3 in the Cooking skill
$73/hour ($438/hour)
Reach Level 5 in the Cooking skill
1 PM - 7 PM
$110/hour ($660/day)
Reach Level 2 in the Gourmet Cooking skill
$164/hour ($984/day)
Reach Level 4 in the Gourmet Cooking skill
$230/hour ($1,380/day)
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
$345/hour ($2,070/day)
Reach Level 6 in the Gourmet Cooking skill
Curator of the Finest Flavors (10)
11 AM - 4 PM
$441/hour ($2,205/day)
The Arts Critic does come out a couple Simoleons ahead, but with so much variety between the career paths, follow your heart instead of the money!
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All Rewards And Items Unlocked In The Critic Career
Finally, we’ve got a complete list of every item, CAS option, and social interaction unlocked as part of the Critic career in The Sims 4.
Items and Interactions Unlocked
“Respond to Mail”
“Snub Art”
Chief Critic (8)
“Critically Connected” perk(offers 20% off the purchase of any art in Build/Buy)
Golden Bowl of Fruit
Only the Best Dining Room furniture
With so much cool stuff between the two career paths, we’ve got aguide to Build/Buy cheatsthat unlock everything for you so you don’t need to switch.
